President Harry S. Truman’s “loyalty checks” began with an executive order declaring that “there shall be a loyalty ...

That the USSR are attempting to spread communism further ... would be more able to trade with the USA. In 1947, President Truman sent General George Marshall to see what could be done to reduce ...

Rebuilding the economies of former World War II allies and enemies alike while countering Soviet expansionism and preventing a third world war became Truman’s primary foreign policy objective ...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin first heard officially from the Americans about their atomic bomb at the Potsdam Conference on July 24, 1945. President Truman told him that we have, "a new weapon of ...

Truman’s commitment to civil rights alienated a large part of the South. His commitment to stopping Soviet expansion had also alienated the most liberal wing of his party. READ ON THE FOX NEWS ...

On July 25, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, and American President Harry Truman met in the German town of Potsdam to discuss the fate of Germany.

Challenges: The Cold War began when World War II ended, and in 1947, Harry S. Truman formally committed the United States to the containment of Soviet expansionism in Europe. In 1947, the North ...